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Tired of searching around for a Final Cut Studio shortcut? Well, check out this document from Zak Ray. It has all of the keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor.
Blow it up and wallpaper your studio with it. Call it a design element!

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Many people do not use Motion Blur because they do not know in which instances to use it. One really great thing you can do with Motion Blur is smoothing out any slow motion effects that have signs of strobing. If you do not want to jump over to Motion to create an optical flow [...]

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Zoom-in provides training for Final Cut Studio artists and offer free tutorials on their site. Pretty cool! The latest one shows you all about how to add fades to tracks quickly.
Apple Certified Instructor Jem Schofield is your host. See the tutorial here.

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Tools and workflows for filmmaking and the iPhone are starting to converge. Since filmmaking is now a global enterprise, many pieces of the puzzle are scattered around in remote locations. Viewing dailies is one of those things that can be done over the web and on the iPhone. In this article from Panasonic you can [...]

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If you are a Final Cut Pro student and you are looking to prepare for you certification exam, check out this page. Here you’ll find flash cards that will help you prepare for the exam. For those that have taken the exam and failed, you’ll find these babies will get you back up to speed [...]

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I recently completed color correction on a “Jewel” live concert video for Nissan Live Sets, which you can see on Yahoo! and MHD, MTV’s HD music channel. Take a look at the above video if you are curious about the work.
The job entailed matching audience shots with the onstage shots as some didn’t match due [...]

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Do you have the desire to see your rendered graphics at top quality right inside of the Final Cut Pro Canvas - without the use of a video monitor?
If you have your Canvas set at 100% precisely, it’ll give you a good idea about how your rendered graphic may look after it’s output to [...]

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Chroma keying is a really useful skill to add to your effects creation toolset. The only trouble is that it is rather a black art. That is, keys are rarely achieved with precisely the same settings and it takes skill and practice to do it well. However, it helps to follow certain basic procedures to [...]

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I’ve found that if you try to judge an exported QuickTime movie from FCP, in QuickTime Player - it looks pretty bad. If you judge it on a video monitor - it is clean. (Things that make ya go, “hmmmm…..”) True, this confuses a lot of folks, especially the masses that don’t use a [...]

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